Alan James wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 15:53): > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: > > > By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred > when my > iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond > to a known > subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network > is > 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was apparently waiting for a > resolver > timeout before printing "localnet/28". > > you can use /etc/networks to fill in these names.
I already tried that, with no apparent success, but I'll try it some more--that's the kind of nice painless solution I'd like best. I sure don't want to install BIND here. > see "man networks" for the syntax, its pretty much the same as > the hosts file. I get "Undocumented" for that. (This is a potato/2.4.9 à la Bunk- -is that man page in Woody maybe?) Thanks for the tips! Tony -- -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99 --
